AMD Radeon HD 8870 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Green Edition

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AMD Radeon HD 8870 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Green Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8870 OEM and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Green Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8870 OEM 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 44.80GB/s)

1216 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Green Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (95W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8870 OEM +1233%

2.56 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GT Green Edition

0.192 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8870 OEM

VS

GeForce 9600 GT Green Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Feb 2008

Sea Islands

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

44.80GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

8

1280

Shading Units

64

80

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

80.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

-

2.560 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

160.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

175W

TDP

95W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

G94

Pitcairn XT (215-0828047)

GPU Variant

G94-300-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

240 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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